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The New Production of Knowledge: The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies
In this provocative and broad-ranging work, a distinguished team of authors argues that the ways in which knowledge — scientific, social and cultural — is produced are undergoing fundamental changes…
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The spontaneous generation controversy. From Descartes to Oparin
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Expert knowledge and decision-making in controversy contexts
There was a time when the mobilization of experts was a taken-for-granted, unproblematic aspect of decision-making processes. That confidence has vanished. Ascertaining the significance of expertise…
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Historical scientometrics? Mapping over 70 years of biological safety research with coword analysis
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The results show biological safety to be a very fragmented field, characterized by the existence of several relatively independent foci of interest, none of which has been able to structure the field into a tight network.
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Controversies as governing processes in technology assessment
The first part of this article shows that in actual practice technology assessment (TA) has clearly moved from its basic conception as a set of objective methodologies developed and used by experts,…
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The Automated Laboratory
Research in molecular genetics is undergoing a rapid and in-depth transformation, epitomized by the massive investment of money and equipment in the Human Genome Project (HGP). According to Walter…
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Milne-Edwards, Darwin, Durkheim and the Division of Labour: A Case Study in Reciprocal Conceptual Exchanges between the Social and the Natural Sciences
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The more exact and established sciences providing conceptual frameworks for the less firmly grounded ones and the frequent borrowings of the biological sciences from the physical sciences, and of the social to the biological and the physical Sciences.
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Expertise as a Network: A Case Study of the Controversies over the Environmental Release of Genetically Engineered Organisms
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Representing Biotechnology: An Ethnography of Quebec Science Policy
In recent years, the sociology of science has been profoundly renewed by the use of an ethnographic approach to the study of scientific practice. The same cannot be said of science policy studies.…
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Revisiting Mode 2 at Noors Slott
In November 2009, at Noors Slott in Sweden, a small group of distinguished individuals from academia and government met to reflect on the ideas developed in the New Production of Knowledge (Gibbons…
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